WOMEN MINISTRY: GABI'S FOLLOW UP MEETING WITH THE WOMEN IN DRAGANESTI AND NEW CONTACTS IN CRAIOVA

There is so much to say … these precious sisters in Christ! Praying that the Lord will give me the right message to touch each of them them and eyes to see with His eyes. I do not have a dream team of women with me this time, but I have a powerful God who enables me! I pray that He goes ahead of me and prepares the way.

  • Pray for Florina who is my local coordinator In Draganesti Olt and for the missionaries’ wives from the area, as well as all the women who I will be meeting on Monday night

  • Pray for Ana who is my local coordinator in the city of Craiova / new church plant location and for all the women / young ladies who will be coming. 10-15 women are expected to come on Saturday afternoon.

I can do all things in Christ who strengthens me! Gabi

TEACHING / TRAINING THE NEW E2E CLASS OF MISSIONARY STUDENTS

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Teaching and Mentoring

Looking forward to starting the new E2E Class of Missionary Students

The E2E is a very comprehensive, intensive six month program.

We are very proud of the students who graduated our first ever program this year. They are now ready for the mission field. Phase two for them is to find partners who will be their support to pray for, encourage, mentor, and provide much needed financial funds. Please contact us immediately if the Lord is speaking to you about partnering with one of these new missionaries.

We are so blessed to have brother Walter Windsor, a friend, mentor, and a true partner in ministry come with us on this trip, especially for this new class of E2E and for the PIE team in Oltenia. One on one mentoring is crucial for these students during the duration of this training program. They need guidance from mature, experienced believers to come alongside them not only for ground breaking evangelism and church planting preparation, but for cross-cultural partnership.

Meeting with the PIE-Romania National Missionaries

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The National PIE-Romania Team

is getting larger

The PIE Romania National Missionary Team is now located in two major regions in Romania:

  • Transylvania, which is the heart of Romania - a high altitude scenic depression with rolling hills ad surrounded by the Carpathian Mountains.

  • Oltenia, a region in the Southern part of Romania on each side of the Olt River all the way down to the Danube River and the Southern border with Bulgaria.

The majority of our missionaries serve in remote rural areas that are frozen in time, with very little or no evangelical presence, where their traditions, rituals, and observances are visible signs of the deceiver’s grip on the people’s minds who are controlled by religious leaders who are deceived themselves, who live in complete spiritual darkness and do not know God’s Word and are afraid of the messengers of the true Gospel because of the strongholds that are binding them.

These missionaries need to be equipped, encouraged, supplied, and most of all, supported. They cannot do this work alone.

They need partners in ministry to pray for them, to help them financially, to get involved in their family and ministry lives. They live difficult lives, their families are struggling, yet they know that they were called to serve this way.

We are called to go and equip and encourage them, so that they can become most effective servants for the kingdom of God.

We invite you to go along with us for a beautiful ride that will transform your life. Each trip reveals God’s glory, His love and mercy, His saving grace, for each is precious in His sight.

Back to Romania to Equip and Encourage

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Focus on the National Team

Mentoring, Maturing, and Growing our Team

  • Meeting with the PIE-Romania national missionaries

  • Teaching/training the new class of E2E missionary students (six months intensive mission program for missionary candidates, our second class starting this year)

  • Women ministry: follow up with the missionary wives and the ladies in Draganesti Olt area, special meeting with the women in the new church plant in the city of Craiova

  • Home visits with individual missionaries and their families to assess and encourage, to know them better as families

Upcoming Second Trip to Romania and Ukraine

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July-August

In two weeks we will be back in Romania for our second time this year.  We will once again be staying at the PIE-Romania Ministry Center in Alba Iulia that has become our mission hub from where we go and come back to other locations.  

We appreciate your support and prayers as we travel back.  We expect a very hot summer and we pray that our whole team will stay healthy.

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Our PIE missionaries in Romania are also meeting on a regular basis at the PIE Center, and their next meeting is coming up July 28.  It is a very special time as they travel from their designated mission points and spend time with each other, being encouraged in the Lord and in the Word, being able to share with each other their struggles but also their victories in ministry.  We are so thankful for our national committee who facilitates the missionaries' travel, meals, housing at the PIE Center, and for our generous partners who contribute financially so that the missionaries do not have to pay out of their pocket for the expenses of these regular meetings.

After spending a short time in Romania we will be driving up to Ukraine, together with two other teaching team members from the U.S. for a week of Camp Ministry in Ukraine, as well as a day of Women's Conference and a Meeting with the PIE national missionaries in the Ukraine.

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July 27

Driving day from Romania to Ukraine

Friday July 27: driving day from Romania to Ukraine, crossing over Transylvania and the Carpathian Mountains and crossing the Romanian-Ukrainian border that is very unpredictable as to how long it can take.  We've experienced many hours waiting at the border to 2-3 hours.  Pray that we will be able to arrive there safely.  Cornel is our van driver, and we will have a full load, also several boxes that were shipped ahead to Romania with items for the Camp that we are taking and crossing into Ukraine.  

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Saturday July 28:  Women's Conference and PIE Missionaries Meeting  The Ladies are getting together for a full day of conference.  This has been designed to minister primarily to the missionaries wives, daughters, daughters in law, and other family members, as well as other women who serve and are leaders.  Gabi was very inspired by the team who went to Romania from our church this spring, and is taking some of the activities and ideas that were used in Romania to the women in Ukraine.  In addition, we have two other speakers, Pat Grupp and Dr. Jackie Wunderly, who have both been to Ukraine with us last year, and there will be some important lessons about apologetics and leadership, personal testimonies and real issues women are facing raising the younger generation.  The men will meet separately and have a time of fellowship, sharing, and prayer.

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PIEI Camp

July 30-Aug 4 2018

July 30th-Aug 4th: Annual PIE Christian Camp in Ukraine  This is a tremendous outreach opportunity for all the PIE missionaries who are sending children and young people from the villages where they minister to this camp.  We expect to have approx. 50 children and youth who are unchurched and unsaved, and 50 who are from Christian families.  We are praying that all will come to the saving knowledge of Christ, and that the Christian children, youth, and leaders will grow in their walk with the Lord.